How France Télévisions seized Cannes Film Festival

The public service, associated with “gross”, presents, Thursday, March 17, its device for the cover of a festival blown with Canal +.

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He makes a lead sun on Wednesday, July 7, 2021 in Cannes. Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, Director of Antennas and Programs of France Télévisions, landing of the TGV for the International Film Festival, including the 74 e edition, pandemic obliges, has been displaced in summer. The boiling young officer – 34 years old -, is expected on the terrace of the Marriott where he must have lunch with Renaud the van Kim, the founding boss of crude.

It’s already at the Cannes Film Festival that, five years earlier, the two men met, presented to each other by Karim Rissouli journalist who today presents “C policy” on France 5 At the time, Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, former ecologist activist, is still only the cabinet director – arrived in 2015 – President Delphine Ernotte. “The Cannes Film Festival, I did not want to go,” he says with a smile. I had a priori negative: a halo of splendor, luxury … I said to myself, “It’s not my place. “And then I discovered that the whole planet film without exception. I had stayed for forty-eight hours, I stayed ten days. Since then, every year, the scenario repeats itself.”

Renaud The Van Kim, 63 years old, is a legend of the festival where he has landed any young man driving the 404 of his father, young assistant to a photo director. Entered Canal +, he climbed all the steps, knows the arcanes of the house and the festival of which he was witness and the man-orchestra of the ceremonies since the first broadcast by the encrypted channel in 1992 for which he was Decided – “An idea of ​​Michel Denisot, Pierre Lescure and Gérard Depardieu attached to the counter of a bar” – to entrust the presentation to an actor or an actress, in this case, that year, Jeanne Moreau.

When he meets Renaud the van Kim, Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez expects to cross an umpteenth producer, “and now he said to me,” I stop television, I will try to realize my first movie ” ” Scarce from the chain encrypted by the Bolloré team after it took control in 2015, the briscard is a moving man.

“Cultural imprint”

The two men are eight months later. This time, Renaud The Van Kim is looking for funds for a new project: an online information media, with subtitled videos (so that it can be seen even without the sound on its mobile phone), aiming for a Very young person who not only reads newspapers, but no longer listening to the radio or watching TV … raw.

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